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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through "Lines Composed a Few Miles above Tintern Abbey, on Revisiting the Banks of the Wye during a Tour, July 13, 1798" Lines 51-113.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What technique is used in lines 100-101: "And the round ocean and the living air,/ And the blue sky, and in the mind of man"?
(a) Epizeuxis.
(b) Chiasmus.
(c) Caesura.
(d) Polysyndeton.

2. What does the speaker mean when he says he was "'mid the din/ Of towns and cities" (lines 26-27)?
(a) In the city, he was often forced to hurry and rush through things.
(b) In the city, he was surrounded by loud, unpleasant noise.
(c) In the city, he was surrounded by crowds and confusion.
(d) In the city, he was often tired and hungry.

3. Besides in his heart and mind, where does the speaker say he felt "sensations sweet" when he remembered the landscape (28)?
(a) In his stomach.
(b) In his blood.
(c) In his throat.
(d) In his bones.

4. What do lines 60 and 61 describe with expressions like "recognitions dim and faint"?
(a) Shallow relationships.
(b) Misunderstandings.
(c) Failing vision.
(d) Fading memories.

5. Line 33's use of the phrase "As have no slight or trivial influence" is an example of which technique?
(a) Anthimeria.
(b) Antithesis.
(c) Litotes.
(d) Euphemism.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the best definition of "sublime" in the context of line 38?

2. What technique is employed when the speaker calls the view "food" for future years (line 66)?

3. How long has it been since the speaker was last in this place?

4. What kind of image opens the poem?

5. How did the speaker primarily relate to nature when he was younger?

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